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Snipe, jack, 2540, 2596, 2654, 2860 ; 

 common, 2595 ; great, 2833 



Snipe-shooting at St. Mary's, Sciliy, 

 2852 



Snipes, solitary, in Norfolk, 2852 



Sparrow, house, variety of, 2483; nest 

 of, in a slab of elm timber, 2682 



Spicier or mouse? 2763, 2802 



Spider, mouse or bat, 2844 



Spinax acanthias, 2554 



Spoonbill at Sciliy, 2522; on Breydon, 

 2830, 2832; at the Lizard, 2851; 

 near Yarmouth, 2871 ; near Alde- 

 burgh, id. 



Starling:, 2595,2632; nest of, in a fir- 

 tree, 2682 



Stevenson, Henry, F.L.S., 'The Birds 

 of Norfolk,' 2413, 2453 



Stickleback, two-spiued, 2554; three- 

 spined, id. ; ten-spined, id. 



Stilt, blackwinged, near Bury St. Ed- 

 munds, 2684 



Stint, little, on the Dublin coast, 2609; 

 Temminck's, at Aldeburgh, 2871 



Stoat, 2754 



Stonechat, 2469, 2599 



Storks, white, near Lydd, 2643 



Surmullet, large, 2812 



Swallow, chimney, 2860 



Swallow and martin, 2830 



Swallows, late, 2440 



Swan laying nine eggs, 2771 



Swan, wild, 2472 ; in Leadenhall Mar- 

 ket, 2487; black, near Deal, 2563; 

 Bewick's, 2601, 2603 ; near Beverley, 

 2644; mute, number of young pro- 

 duced by, 2810; Bewick's, 2828 



Swans, wild, on the Thames, 2525 ; in 

 Ireland in the winter of 1870-71, 

 2644 



Swift, 2782, 2831 ; alpine, in Durham, 

 2767; in Wiltshire, id. 



Tapir, new species of, at the Zoological 

 Gardens, 2802 



Teal, garganey, in East Yorkshire, 

 2644 ; in Norfolk, 2831, 2832 



Tern,common, 2664 ; black, at Henley- 

 on-Thames, 2684 ; at Elstree Reser- 

 voir, 2810 



Terns at St. Alban's Court, 2684 ; in the 

 Humber, 2783; whitewinged black, 

 2829 



Thamnobia cambaiensis, 2784 



Thrush, White's, in Somersetshire, 2607 ; 

 in Norfolk, 2848; song, 2633; missel, 

 2639 ; accident to a, 2639; rock, 2836; 

 common, 2861 



Tit, greater, preying on a bat, 2439; 

 bearded, 2600 ; longtailed, disap- 

 pearance of the, 2607 ; crested, on the 

 Spey, 2608 



Titmouse, crested, 2837; northern, id. 



Tortoiseshell ? 2788 



Trichecus rosmarus, 2550 



Trout, brook, 2555 ; salmon, id. 



Turnstone, 2784 



Turtur cambayensis, 2786 



Turtle, fossil, in the Isle of Wight, 2685 



Twite, 2533, 2537 



Variety of sand martin, 2440; of house 

 sparrow, 2483 ; of ring dove, 2521 ; 

 of fieldfare, 2607; of pied wagtail, 

 2783; of house martin, 2806; of wood 

 pigeon, 2869 



Vespertilio subulatus, 2540 



Visitants, winter, 2498; cold-weather, 

 arrival of in India, 2502 



Vole, field, 2756 ; water, id. 



Vulture, bearded, 2835 ; griflfon, id. 



Wader, name of a, 2772 ; at Whitby, 

 2806 ; the Whitl)y, 2851, 2870 



Waders on Breydon, 2829; autumn, 

 2833 



Wagtail, grayheaded, nesting of near 

 Newcastle, 2483 ; at Brighton, 2639 ; 

 white, at Northam Burrows, 2608; 

 common pied, 2636; pied, white 

 varieties of, 2783 



Wagtails, pied and gray, 2535 



Walrus, 2550 



Warbler, aquatic, at Dover, 2521 ; 

 garden, 2533, 2634;- grasshopper, 

 2634; sedge, suspended nests of, 

 2681 ; alpine, 2836; bluethroated,irf.; 

 reed, twin nests of, 2867 



Warblers, summer, 2831 



Water-fowl, arrival of, 2535 



Waterhen submerging itself, 2522 



Waterhens and wood pigeons succes- 

 sively occupying the same nest, 

 2770 



Waxwings at West Hartlepool, 2805 



Weasel, 2754 



Whale, fin-back, 2551 ; humpbacked 

 id.; sulphur-bottom, id.) barnacle 

 2552; pike or lesser fin, 2757; razor 

 back common fin, id.; right, id. 

 northern sperm, 2758 



Wheatear, 2635, 2860 



Whimbrel, 2654, 2783 



Whiuchat, 2635 



Whitethroat, lesser, 2634 ; late singing 

 of, 2867 



